• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Why Divest? The Political and Informational Roles of Institutions in Asset Stranding
  • Contributor: Carlson, Murray [VerfasserIn]; Fisher, Adlai J. [VerfasserIn]; Lazrak, Ali [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: [S.l.]: SSRN, [2023]
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (50 p)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4393194
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  • Keywords: Divestment ; asset stranding ; political channel of divestment
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  • Footnote: Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments September 19, 2022 erstellt
  • Description: We model stakeholder-driven institutional divestiture that promotes stranding of harmful assets through both a political channel and financial prices. We introduce two novel mechanisms. First, institutional divestiture weakens stakeholders' asset exposures, improving political conditions for stranding. Second, institutional divestiture credibly communicates information about citizen preferences, environmental harm, and economic benefits to financial markets and political participants. These channels drive harmful-asset divestiture, which reduces the asset price and raises its strand probability. Support for divestiture increases under supermajority strand requirements, and when institutions internalize rest-of-world welfare. We detail the equilibrium interactions between information, divestiture, prices, and stranding in a dynamic, rational-expectations game
  • Access State: Open Access